Live Handling & Transport of Crustacean Shellfish: An Investigation of Mortalities

Summary

The export of live crab to the Continental European markets represents a growing opportunity for catchers and exporters. Previous studies of mortality of velvet crab are also appropriate to brown crab and this study concentrates on the latter species analysing those factors during transport which are likely to cause mortality. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Author

• P. MacMullen

Publication Reference No.

SR280

Publication date

01 January 1986